 I'm singing in the rain Just singing in the rain What a glorious feeling I'm happy again He's happy again Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love That's too much Welcome back to our Stupid Reactions, David. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. You're So Juicy You're creating your own language Today we're reacting to something called The Spirit of Cricut in India Okay, this is a song. No, no, it's a street What do you what is going on? I don't know me either Read this up to in January 2020. I traveled through India. Oh Okay, I'm just you were there too not not. Oh, yeah, it's 2021. I traveled through India visiting the the Oval's and maidens of Mumbai and the back streets of Calcutta We may have been there at the same time Enjoying local roadside matches on the way I discovered a game out in the desert met a team of cricketing monks played cricket with kids by a river and was Clean bowled on the beach at Juhu. I met Sachin and Dravid and the blind and physically challenged cricketers who totally inspired me along catching up with the youngest and Oldest cricketers and the first girls cricket Academy and much more. Cool So went on a journey and looking around at just how cricket permeates the India. Yeah, that's super cool. Yeah, and I too I saw and it was everywhere Like I remember walking around in Calcutta with Indrani. There's kids playing cricket in the street There's kids playing cricket in the park was a league happening on a field also everywhere similar I clean both your mom. You did. She told me about it. Here we go. It might be wow Wow, maybe Get off a bus just walk out the streets to take the shots of wise ones take Caption the attitude of movies what photography is all about in the past. I just saw a sample. That's right. I'll take the photo But now I can see, you know, what makes a great photo. There's gonna be a few different elements to it You know the foreground the middle of the background trying to match those up. Just seeing things in a different way I don't know where to look. There's 70 games going on. I can't believe people they get cleaned up. There's balls flying everywhere But everyone seems to know what's going on From a personal point of view, I'll do anything for cricket like football is standing in front of me I'll show him and I have to tell him Whoa Very pure the game. Maybe they love playing the game of cricket It's just a baton ball. They make their own stumps out of whether they can find that they got the love of the game Nice, I've been out actually take a photograph that till this trip That's where the idea comes from just get out there get amongst that. What is the spirit of cricket? Why is cricket a religion in India? Oh, wow? Whoa, nice. I don't know what that was You kind of released it. Yeah backwards The young boy the three-year-old prodigy Look, he's no dad. He's got incredible He's definitely gonna work on his temperament and concentration, but any three-year-old after a couple of minutes is going to lose lose focus Whoa The laugh That was Corbin as a kid. Yeah, and with the Himalayas as a backdrop Dang maize by that skill. Wow. They're tough I mean, they're playing on basically a pitch. It was up and down and undulating terrible for batting And they started playing with hot rock-eyed cricket balls and thinking someone is gonna be seriously hurt here There's one awesome. Have you carried up on you? That's freaking awesome. That's a disabled cricket That's the wrong man. I mean they were enabled in every way It was honest like they were in high jump or pole vault and then they were bowling a ball It was pure artistry and beauty the way they were bowling. That's awesome interacting with the girl craters up at Durham South The first women's cricket academy in India Wanting knowledge that thirsty to gain knowledge and you know when people like that you can't help but give back And I really enjoyed going out the middle Talking to the captains getting in the head how they're thinking and trying to change their attitude a bit to be a bit more aggressive When they haven't got much that is the spirit of the game the spirit of cricket is that quest to get better That more factory to me was all that teamwork and knowing your job and your role because everyone was there's a Confined space there's a lot of people but whatever was in front of them They did it to the best of their ability then they moved on to the next task and To see them operate and to see the products are producing is well class That'd be so fun to watch. I wanted to know what they wax it. Yeah, right from the very beginning in the end I would love to watch that Is a religion in India and that's what I wanted to try and capture through the link I think coming back is just reinforced it because once you see IPL and guys like millions of other than the resume Tas and and the adulation and a lot of the fans when you get down a ground level nothing's really changed And a lot of people have got very little Material possessions of wealth, but when they get oh Everyone is equal. It doesn't matter who you are. I want you to step out of the field You're all equal and you can achieve great things and you can understand things yourself. You can enjoy experiences look on You can create memories together so quickly to me Is a great leveler and the spirit of quickly is going out onto the streets or on the parks and seeing kids just Make up a game with a plastic bat and a ball and I have the bricks for the stumps And just see how good they can be. That is the spirit of cricket. That was cool. Great video Is is he a cricketer? No, I think he's just a photographer. Yeah, I didn't know who wanted to document that Yeah, that was super cool. And yeah, everything you said was which is what we've experienced of Going to the all legends game and and that atmosphere and that wasn't even like a real real game And then obviously just the love that people just have for the game It's I mean, I guess the only equivalent we have here is Is nfl What that reminded me of was in American sports history The sport that would be closest to cricket and I don't mean this by rules and playing I just mean the agile the adulation and the embrace of it as a country Is when baseball around the turn of the century in the 20th century went from The late 1800s Until the 1970s Yeah, and especially from Just before the great depression through world war two and into the 50s and 60s That's the heyday where that's why it was called america's pastime Yeah, you could say that baseball at that time was america's sport religion. Absolutely everybody played it They were playing on military bases. They're playing in the streets and the parks and then in the 70s Football came around and the mba came around so we don't have a singular sport. Yeah nfl is definitely the giant right now nfl is the giant now, but even in f l It's the closest i've ever seen in american history to the way they love a sport is the way baseball was loved back in the early And mid 20th century, I guess it's still not to the level that soccer is to the world Yeah, but even that nothing is though, but even that because you know better than I do That indians love for cricket isn't like anything i've ever heard about in terms of other people's love for football around the world It is it's it's so it for other people It is a religion the way it is for indians is for cricket I know like all over the world Really outside of the united states really all over the world sorry in terms of england with the english premier league sure in terms of south america I knew south america brazil especially even china india as well actually has a Football team that they they like a lot, but yeah, it's the most popular sport in the world for a reason and people are Like they they get violent with their passion It's that way also in poppa new guinea and australia for rugby I was introduced to and appreciated rugby for the first time when I went to poppa new guinea because they had A big game going on at the time and the whole nation just shut down to watch the rugby game Yep, and that's that's how it is. We just We don't have I mean like I said nfl is probably the closest Super Bowl Sunday The passion people have four teams currently unless you're going to like play off baseball and it's red sox yankees Yeah, that's the best rivalry in all of america sports is to see the yankees and the red sox play each other clinical but in terms of just current excitement and and just How big the league is the nfl but nothing touches The cricket level and nothing definitely touches soccer level And I've talked to a bunch of you guys because you guys know I'm a man you fan. Yeah Unfortunately for a couple seasons now But for the history, we're basically the yankees right of the soccer world. Yeah We've just Even I know that and I don't follow this sport and I know that Um, but anyways, yeah, this was great. Lovely video I would still love and sadly we probably would have done it already But I would have had like a media up with a bunch of la stew of babies And we would have played a full game because we still get to do that and I want to I think it'd be really fun To just like it would have a group of however many people you need. Okay, so let's just say it right now Let's just say right now on the next trip. Let's make sure we organize because of all the places That's where I'd like to do it. I'd like to play a full game of park We were we were supposed to but we got kicked out and it was right after a riots happened in delhi so Uh, we could pull it off. I'm sure the stupid babies in mumbai could get a park Absolutely. We could get people together and we could play a legit game of cricket in mumbai. Absolutely. Yeah with renvir Yeah, my best friend. Yeah, they're best friends now in peace. Haha. Apparently he's watching like a hawk. He watches It's like a hawk. We see you renvir See you brother